County man sentenced in robberies

NORRISTOWN – A South Coventry man faces time behind state prison bars in connection with a one-man, three-county crime spree that included armed holdups at an Upper Providence yogurt shop and a Radnor pizza shop.

Adam Robert David, 20, who most recently resided along the 3700 block of Coventryville Road and is formerly of Lower Pottsgrove, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to three-to-six years in a state correctional facility after he pleaded guilty to multiple robbery charges, as well as a burglary charge, in connection with incidents that occurred between July 22, and Aug. 3, 2011, in Montgomery, Chester and Delaware counties.

President Judge William J. Furber Jr. also ordered David to complete nine years’ probation after he’s paroled from prison and to undergo a psychological evaluation and abide by any treatment recommendations.

David, who was 18 at the time of the crimes, was apprehended by authorities on Aug. 4, 2011, at the Coventry Mall. While the crimes occurred in three counties, Montgomery County prosecutors handled all the criminal cases.

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The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Justin Boehret. David was represented by defense lawyer Michael Drossner.

With the charges, authorities alleged David stole a 2004 Audi TT on July 22, 2011, from outside a Prizer Road home in East Nantmeal and used the Audi as a getaway car during a July 30 armed robbery at the Kiwi Yogurt store in the Providence Town Center in Upper Providence. Authorities previously characterized the robbery as “brazen and unusual” because David appeared to be carrying a machine gun-type weapon.

Witnesses saw David leave the store in the Audi, which they described as having a “loud exhaust,” court papers indicate.

At one point, according to court papers, Lower Pottsgrove police were in pursuit of a blue Audi TT with a loud exhaust but lost the vehicle in the area of Sanatoga Road near the nuclear power plant in Limerick. The Audi was later discovered abandoned in a wood line near Zara Lane in Limerick, court documents indicate.

While police were investigating the yogurt shop robbery, David allegedly used a handgun to rob the Domino’s Pizza shop in the 100 block of West Lancaster Avenue in Radnor Township, Delaware County, of about $319 before fleeing on foot on Aug. 3, according to the arrest affidavit.

The investigation determined the guns used in the robberies were actually airsoft or BB-type guns. But the weapons looked so much like real firearms that they were frightening to the victims, authorities said.

After he was taken into custody on Aug. 4 at the Coventry Mall, David confessed to his crimes and directed detectives to a wood line next to a remote parking area of the mall where police found a black canvas bag and the handgun allegedly used during the Radnor holdup, according to the arrest affidavit.